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Reference group

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chosen group for conformity and norms

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Membership group

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can not be changed, not chosen, like gender

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Definition group membership

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personal definition and identification in terms of group membership, share normative attitudes, common goal, evaluation

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Types of groups

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  • common-bond group, based on close interpersonal bonds (personal goals > group goals)
  • common-identity group, attached to group as whole (group goals most important)
  • social aggregates
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Social facilitation

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better performance on easy tasks, worse on hard tasks when presence of others

  • drive theory (Zajonc)
  • evaluation-apprehension model (Cottrell), presence of others only causes arousal when feeling evaluated
  • distraction-conflict theory
  • self-awareness theory
  • self-presentation concern
  • narrowed attention
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Task taxonomy (Steiner)

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individual performance in group, depends on whether:

divisible/ unitary or maximizing/ optimizing

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Types of distribution of work in groups

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  • additive - group’s product sum of all inputs
  • compensatory - average of all inputs
  • disjunctive - adopted product of one individual’s input
  • conjunctive - group product determined by least able member
  • discretionary - group free to decide for preferred course of action
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Ringelmann effect

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individual’s effort on task diminishes as group size increases, coordinational or motivational loss

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Social loafing

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work less on a task when we believe others are also working on it (motivational loss)

  • output equity
  • evaluation apprehension
  • matching to group standard
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Free-rider effect

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take advantage of shared public resources without contributing

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Social compensation

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increased effort on collective task to compensate other group member’s lack of effort or ability

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Group cohesiveness (Festinger)

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property of group that binds group members to one another, higher personal attachment, either personal or social attraction

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Forming of groups (5 steps)

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  • forming
  • storming
  • norming
  • performing
  • adjourning
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Forming of groups (3 steps)

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  • evaluation
  • commitment
  • role transition
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Initiation rites

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cognitive dissonance makes you like the group more once you’ve done a hard/ bad initiation rite to finally be a member of the group

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Norms of groups

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attitudinal and behavioral uniformities that define group membership, limited frame of reference, coordination towards fulfillment of goals

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Ethnomethodology (Garfinkel)

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making sense of world through belonging to group

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Roles in a group

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behavioral patterns, apply to subgroups that interrelate for good of whole group, furnishes expectations and definition of the self

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Expectation status theory (Berger)

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hierarchies are malleable, roles emerge as consequence of people’s status-based expectations about other’s performances

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Specific vs diffuse status characteristics

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specific: relate directly to useful ability on group task
diffuse: generally positive or negative, large-scale attitudes

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Being prototypical in a group

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more influence, higher status, leaders are very prototypical

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Subjective group dynamics (Marques)

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respond to deviant individuals within groups in a context involving comparisons between their ingroup and an outgroup, different attitudes and behavior when in comparison with other groups

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Reasons for joining a group

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realistic conflict theory, behavioral interdependence to achieve a goal
affiliation
proximity
safety
terror management theory (Greenberg)
uncertainty identity theory (Hogg)
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Leadership

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ability to influence group to achieve a goal, either effective or good, depending on context, task specialist or socioemotional specialist

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Great person theory

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good leader defined by big five personality traits

but: not the only factor, combination of personal and situational factors is key to good or effective leadership

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Types of leaders (Lippit and White)

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autocratic
democratic
laissez-faire

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Contingency theories

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  • Fiedler’s contingency theory - situational control
  • normative decision theory - autocratic when subordinate commitment high and task clear, democratic when more involvement needed and task less clear
  • path-goal theory (House) - leader’s main function is motivate followers by clarifying paths
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Idiosyncrasy credit (Hollander)

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good credit rating gives leader legitimacy to exert influence and deviate from established norms

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Leader-member exchange theory (Grean)

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effective leadership depends on ability to develop good-quality exchange relationships

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Leader categorization theory

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variety of schemas about different types of leaders, high match makes good leader

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Status characteristics theory

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leaders who are both task-relevant and high-status are better

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Group value model (Lind)

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justice within group makes members feel evaluated, enhanced commitment

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Relational model of authority in groups (Tyler)

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effective authority rests on fairness, distributive vs procederal justice

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Social decision schemas

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intellect required: truth wins
judgement: majority wins
strictness: amount of agreement
distribution of power: how authoritarian

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Brainstorming

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less productive,
evaluation apprehension - reduction in productivity when feeling productive and good
social loafing
production matching - average group performance as norm, regression to mean
production blocking - creativity reduced when taking turns
illusion of group efficiency

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Group memory

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Clark, Stephenson 1980s: groups remember more but make same amount of mistakes

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Group think

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unanimous agreement > proper rational decision making, leads to poor decisions

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Group polarization

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tendency to make decisions that are more extreme than the mean of opinions

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Reasons for group polarization

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  • persuasive arguments theory
  • social comparison theory
  • cultural values theory
  • social identity theory

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